What is available in English?

The whole website content.
The exhibition is bilingual – all the information and captions are both in Polish and English.
The museum staff (e.g. in the ticket office) speaks good English.
The audio guides are available in English, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish.
There is available an audio guide dedicated to families (children aged 6-12). Audio guides for families are available in Polish and English. The tour with audio guides for families is shorter, it lasts about 1 hour. It’s nice for parents to rent the same, family audio guide for themselves (not the adult version) as the audio guide will guide them and the kids along the same route and the whole family will have the same stops on the tour. More in English about the family audio guides.

How to get there?

The Museum is located in Muranów area, Śródmieście district, central part of Warsaw. Location on Google map.
By car: On weekends, visitors can park for free on Anielewicza Street and other small streets around the museum. On weekends, visitors can use the museum car park at Anielewicza Street, depending on the availability of places. On weekdays, the museum area is within paid parking zone.
By public transport:
- By bus: 111, 180 (bus stop: Nalewki Muzeum),
- By tram: 15, 18, 35 (tram stop: Muranów); 17, 33 (tram stop: Anielewicza),
- By metro: Ratusz Arsenał stop (requires 10-minute walk, about 1 km).

The Museum is closed on:

Tuesdays,
In 2022, the Museum is closed on April 17, June 16, October 4, 5, November 1, December 24-25, December 31.

Tickets:

It is possible to buy tickets online.
Regular ticket: 30 PLN.
Reduced ticket: 20 PLN (e.g. students, people over 60).
Family ticket (for maximum 2 adults and 4 children up to 18 years old): 65 PLN.
Free admission: children up to the age of 7.
Free admission on Thursdays (it can be crowded).
Ticket “Museum for 1 PLN”: for children between 7 and 16 years of age and young people between 16 and 26 years of age, applies to holders of a card of Polish schools and universities.

Where to have lunch or coffee?

There is a restaurant in the building of the Museum. Website in Polish and English.

King Matt’s Family Education Centre

In the Museum, there is a kids-dedicated space called King Matt’s Family Education Area (in Polish: Miejsce edukacji rodzinnej “U króla Maciusia”). It’s open for free (except for some family workshops) on weekends. To see the current program and opening hours for a given weekend, visit the website: https://www.polin.pl/pl/najblizszy-tydzien-u-krola-maciusia.
It’s dedicated to parents with children aged 0-10.
Here you can draw, play, read, and make music.

Other relevant information:

There is the museum store where you can buy also some general souvenirs from Warsaw and Poland.
After you enter the Museum building, there is a security check.

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